Dr. Ke Wang is an associate at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquartered in Munich, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Astrophysics from Peking University in 2012, with majority of his Ph.D. research carried out at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Boston, USA, during an Submillimeter Arrary (SMA) pre-doctoral fellowship. In 2011, he accepted a research grant of the European Commission and moved to the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in the Netherlands for a postdoctoral fellowship. He joined ESO in 2012 as a fellow with functional work at the European ALMA Regional Center, and became an associate in 2015 funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
His main research interest is the early phase of massive star formation, from Planck cold cores, infrared dark clouds to interstellar filaments. His recent research on the largest filaments ("Bones") in the Milky Way has been featured by Harvard, American Astronomical Society, and European Space Agency. His studies on the initial fragmentation in star cluster forming regions have been highlighted in Annual Review in Astronomy and Astrophysics (ARAA) and review Protostars and Planets VI. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded the Springer Theses Prize.
